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Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger
Tone Poem Tuesday
Charles Lucien Lambert (1828-1896) was born a free person of color in Louisiana. A talented pianist and composer, he moved as a young man to Paris where his son Lucien-Leon joined him in music-making, and their compositions were received warmly … Continue reading
Life goes on….
It’s been…a week. I’ve had stuff to blog about, but frankly I didn’t want to start pushing Julio’s memorial post down the page just yet. I’ll start posting again in the next few days, but for now. here’s just a … Continue reading
Julio
Fifteen months after his brother Lester departed, we have had to say goodbye to Julio today. They came to us as a package deal, and I hope there’s some realm beyond the rain and the clouds where they can be … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
The other night I was looking for some new Celtic music to listen to, so I hopped on over to Google and searched for “Best Celtic Albums of 2020” (or maybe it was 2019). This brought up several articles, and … Continue reading
i carry your heart
Today I heard a striking choral work on WNED, but I missed the piece’s introduction. I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing was a pain! If you heard a song or piece but you missed the radio … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Admittedly, I am phoning it in a little this week. Here’s a virtuoso showpiece for cornet and wind band, setting the Italian folksong “The Carnival of Venice”, as played by Wynton Marsalis and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Donald … Continue reading
Fall In WNY
Autumn is turning out to be quite lovely this year. I remember a recent October–maybe last year’s?–where it was just kind of rainy and unpleasant the whole month and then it was November and all the leaves fell at once … Continue reading
Eddie
Eddie’s gone. This one hurts, folks. It took me a while to start loving rock music. I heard a lot of it as a kid (benefits of having an older sister, which I did not appreciate at the time because … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Edward Bland (1926-2013) was a composer and filmmaker who may be best known for a film he made in 1959, The Cry of Jazz, which has been deemed sufficiently significant in the history of Black filmmaking that it has been … Continue reading
“I’ve learned so much”
In Larry McMurtry’s great Western novel Lonesome Dove, for much of the novel the point of view changes between the main story (a group of Texas cattlemen leading their herds north for selling) and a secondary plot in which we … Continue reading